Sustained pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular hypertrophy after chronic hypoxia in mice with congenital deficiency of nitric oxide synthase

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 101, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2468-2477

  Steudel, Wolfgang ^a   Scherrer Crosbie, Marielle ^a   Bloch, Kenneth D ^a   Weimann, Jörg ^a   Huang, Paul L ^a   Jones, Rosemary C ^a   Picard, Michael H ^a   Zapol, Warren M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Circulation, pulmonary; Echocardiography, transesophageal; Gene deletion; Hypertension, pulmonary; Nitric oxide synthase

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HYPOXIA; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYCYTHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0032102283     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI2356     Document Type: Article

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